37. Chapter XXXVII
There are many traps everywhere in this cave. Mo Chaoyun slandered in his heart, but said in his mouth: "I understand." ”
In front of everyone's eyes, Mo Chaoyun stretched out his hand to the tall black box. I really never expected that she would be the first person to draw lots in the end, and the lottery change strategy that Chiba said didn't come in handy at all. This magical accident made Mo Chaoyun's mind chaotic at this moment, and he didn't know how to deal with it. For today's plan, we can only see the move, and we will draw lots first.
Putting his hand into the black lottery box that seemed to be a bottomless pit, Mo Chaoyun's hanging heart was highly nervous. Perhaps burdened by the atmosphere and all kinds of rambling imagination rendered by the people around her, it was just a dead thing in front of her, a box that could not move, and it was impossible to swing a sword at her, but seeing her arm sink deeper and deeper, it was as if the box in front of her had quietly come to life, it was silently swallowing her arm, and perhaps her soul that could not be settled.
She felt her fingers finally touch the bottom, maybe not the bottom, but as if something metallic, cold and cold, with some kind of angular texture. Mo Chaoyun was surprised in his heart, it turned out that the sign during the duel was a metal sign, and yes, after all, it was integrated with the organ, so I thought it was this.
She subconsciously grasped this thin, angular thing, and pulled it out with a slight force, but she felt as if the thing was stuck, and she couldn't move.
Mo Chaoyun was stunned, but he heard a very slight sound, as if something was quickly closing and separating in the box.
Si Le said: "You can't put the signed back again, otherwise it will trigger the mechanism." Mo Chaoyun, what are you doing in a daze, and you still don't take out the sign? It's a good thing you didn't throw the stick back, or your arm would be locked by the trap right now. ”
Mo Chaoyun felt that he couldn't say anything. She wanted to take out the lottery, but it seemed to be stuck. She was entangled: "It's so strange, the sign seems to be stuck, and I can't take it out." ”
Immediately, there was a sneer from below: "Hurry up, don't delay your efforts." ”
"That's it, the sign didn't fall into the tiger's mouth, and you can't take it out, I think you don't want to take it out."
"If you don't take out the sign for a long time, you're secretly making trouble......
Listening to these doubts, Mo Chaoyun was depressed, so she stretched her arm longer, she wanted to touch where the tail of the sign was stuck, but as her arm went deeper, there was an extremely strange touch on the tip of her fingers.
What is it? It's smooth to the touch, but it's stiff to the touch, and when I stretch out my finger and press it, it seems to be slightly sticky...... Suddenly, Mo Chaoyun froze his fingers. She thought of the desperation of a year in the wilderness where she had been slain, crying and rummaging through the corpses of her companions, and the discomfort of her warm palms touching the corpses that had been dried and corrupted.
The feeling of sliding through the dead man's skin overlapped with the sporadic tactile sensations coming from her fingertips at this moment, and she was shocked into a cold sweat. She forced herself to open her fingers and continue to probe down, it was too deep, and the joints of her arms were already stretching painfully, but Mo Chaoyun didn't have time to care about those side details. Her heart was cold, and with the confirmation of her fingers, she finally affirmed one thing.
Mo Chaoyun turned his head sideways and looked at Shi Jiuwei, but saw that Shi Jiuwei was also looking at her strangely, and the two of them met their eyes and were silent for a moment.
"What's wrong?" The first to speak was Shi Jiuwei.
Mo Chaoyun said cautiously: "Please open the box and inspect it, there is a ...... in this box A human head. ”
What the?!
As soon as these words came out, everyone present was taken aback. Today was already the day when the people of the Nineteenth Academy were panicking, but they didn't expect that on the same day of the competition at the end of this month, there would be even more sensational incidents.
When the messenger, Chiba and Hongyan arrived in the nineteenth courtyard, they happened to see everyone unpacking and taking out a human head. The human head was scattered, and the tangled hair congealed into a clump in the blood, and when the dirty hair was removed, it was a pair of eyes that were terrifyingly wide. The sharp-eyed person shouted loudly: "Ye Zhu, Ye Zhu, isn't this Ye Zhu!" ”
Ye Zhu, who had been missing for many days, was finally found, and her dead head finally saw the light of day with the open lottery box.
In front of the door of the Nineteenth Courtyard Lord's room, many people from the Nineteenth Courtyard gathered, and everyone was gossiping and talking, but no one dared to lean forward to listen to what was being said in the room. The highest-ranking people in the Demon Cave were now separated from them by a door and a stone's throw away, but none of them dared to cross the Thunder Pool by half a step. There was a big explosion of thunder on the ground, and everyone was afraid that the thunder would eventually be led to them, and even if their curiosity was attacked, they all watched and endured it from afar.
"Mo Xun, you said that you are in the same room with such a ruthless person, are you afraid?" The person with good deeds poked Mo Xun a few times, but he didn't get any response at all.
Mo Xun lowered his head slightly, as if he had wandered out of the world.
"Don't mess with her, I guess I'm scared silly." The other pouted and took away the good thing before, "If I think back on the events of this time, I guess I will be afraid to die." ”
"No, but who can blame for this? I summoned the ghost myself. Wasn't it inseparable before, and protected like a sister? I guess I'm sorry to die now. ”
These voices were close and far away, Mo Xun seemed to be deaf, she just slowly raised her head and looked at the tightly closed door not far away.
The atmosphere inside the door was calm, not much better than the outside. Shi Jiuwei and Mo Chaoyun both knelt quietly on the ground for a long time, but the messenger sitting on the main seat did not say a word, and Hongyan and Qianye who were on the side seats on both sides were also silent.
Mo Chaoyun knelt so that her legs and knees were numb, and she quietly peeked at Chiba, but he sat up straight as if he didn't see her.
"It's all quiet, and you don't speak?" It was the messenger who spoke first, and he glanced at Hongyan, "You don't usually talk the most, why don't you speak at the moment?" ”
Hong Yanjiao smiled: "If you want to say that this fact is in front of you, what do you need me to say?" What's more, I'm not good at this kind of thing, so I'd better ask someone who is good at it. With that, his eyes slid to Chiba's position.
The messenger snorted and asked Chiba again, "Then Chiba should say it." ”
Chiba glanced at Mo Chaoyun at this time, and saw that her eyes were revealing a plea for help, so she silently withdrew her gaze and said calmly: "If I open my mouth, I am afraid that some people will say that I am biased, so it is better to avoid suspicion." ”
Hong Yan sneered when she heard this, "So, if you open your mouth, you will definitely excuse Mo Chaoyun?" Don't you feel blushing when you're so short? ”
Chiba looked at Hongyan quietly, like looking at a stone, "Who would leave such obvious evidence in the mouth of the deceased after killing someone?" is such an obvious blame, but you say that I am trying to exonerate Mo Chaoyun, so what else can I say? Wouldn't it be better if you could reply directly to the messenger's inquiry, and decisively dispose of her immediately according to the rules of the Demon Cave? ”
"You!"
"Enough! Hongyan you! The messenger pointed at Hongyan and said: "You are the one who let Chiba speak, and you are the one who doesn't let him speak, do you let him say it or not!" ”
Hong Yan said stupidly: "I'm just reminding him, when I haven't said anything, Chiba-sama, please." ”
"In that case, I'll take a look at the clues I just heard." Chiba glanced at Shi Jiuwei and Mo Chaoyun, "But it may be a little long, so it's better to let them get up and talk first." ”
The messenger nodded, "Then sit down first." ”
Mo Chaoyun secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and took the lead in sitting on the chair opposite Qianye, but she felt that there were two empty positions, separating the distance from Hongyan.
Seeing this, Hong Yan snorted coldly.
Chiba said: "Mo Chaoyun, who was the first to draw lots today, found a human head in the lottery box, this human head was confirmed to be Ye Zhu, who had been missing for many days, and there was a corner of Mo Chaoyun's shirt in Ye Zhu's human head, is that so?" ”
Shi Jiuwei sat next to Chiba, and when he heard it, he turned sideways and replied, "Just as Chiba-sama said." ”
"When was the last time the box was inspected?"
Shi Jiu Wei said: "After the test at the end of each month, the box will be sealed and safekept, and the secret key of the box and the key to the storage room where the box is placed are kept by me personally, so the last inspection was at the end of last month, and it has been a whole month. ”
Chiba asked again: "Then in the past month, has the key of the Shiyuan master been gone?" Is there a possibility that someone will quietly take it away and secretly put it back? After he said this, he couldn't help but smile and shake his head.
Shi Jiu said cautiously: "It's unlikely, because ......" She wanted to say who could take the key right under her nose without alarming her? But he felt that it was too arrogant to say this, so he hesitated for a while before saying, "My subordinates are not helpful, and I won't be so slack." ”
Chiba smiled: "The same is true of what I shook my head just now, the master of the Shiyuan has commanded thousands of troops and horses, and there are countless souls under the long/spear, with this body alone, ordinary people don't have the courage to do this." ”
Mo Chaoyun's eyes lit up when he heard this, so the previous Nineteenth Academy Master was a general? Sure enough, she has always felt this way, but she can't believe it, and at this moment, confirming this from what Chiba said, she can't help but be more respectful of Shijiuwei.
Chiba swept past Mo Chaoyun's eyes that stared at Shi Jiuwei non-stop, and a hint of amusement flashed in his heart.
"Since the matter is not something that went wrong in the link of the master of the courtyard, then it will be the turn of this deceased, that is, this Ye Zhu." Chiba still asked, "When did Ye Zhu disappear?" ”